Rex Heuermann, the Lengthy Island architect and household man accused of being the Gilgo Seashore serial killer, will seem in courtroom subsequent month to plead responsible, in response to Newsday.
Family members of a few of Heuermann’s alleged victims knowledgeable the paper on Thursday, March 26, in regards to the new growth.
If true, it may deliver to an finish what has been a decades-long nightmare for Lengthy Islanders.
Newsday experiences Heuermann will change his plea throughout a listening to scheduled for April 8.
Suffolk County District Legal professional Ray Tierney and Heuermann’s protection legal professional, Michael J. Brown, declined to touch upon the upcoming responsible plea when contacted by Newsday.
Heuermann, 62, has publicly denied any involvement within the killings since his arrest on July 13, 2023.
Within the case he modifies his plea and admits to the murders, Heuermann could be sentenced at a later listening to.
Heuermann, who was married and has two grownup youngsters, was arrested in July 2023 outdoors his Manhattan workplace in connection to 3 of the Gilgo Seashore murders. (His spouse, Asa Ellerup, filed for divorce weeks after Heuermann’s arrest.)
Heuermann has since been charged with the murders of Valerie Mack, 24; Jessica Taylor, 20; Megan Waterman, 22; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25; Sandra Costilla, 28; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
He has pleaded not responsible to all seven homicide costs. Investigators are nonetheless attempting to attach Heuermann to 2 different our bodies that had been discovered dumped at Gilgo Seashore.
Investigators spent weeks at Heuermann’s home, amassing proof, together with a stockpile of weapons.
Heuermann is being held on the Riverhead Correctional Facility. A New York State Supreme Courtroom decide stated that he’s aiming for Heuermann to face trial for all seven murder costs in September.
Brown not too long ago advised reporters his shopper has been utilizing crutches for little over a month, however didn’t disclose what well being points the suspected killer is coping with.
Earlier this 12 months, Peacock launched a documentary about Heuermann and his household referred to as The Gilgo Seashore Killer: Home of Secrets and techniques, government produced by rapper 50 Cent.
The docuseries featured Heuermann’s spouse and their youngsters. Within the doc, Ellerup had problem accepting her husband may very well be Lengthy Island’s most notorious serial killer.
“No person deserves what they acquired. However Rex was not seeing [sex workers]. He’s a household man. He didn’t do that,” Ellerup claimed. “I would want to listen to it from Rex nose to nose that he killed these ladies for me to consider it. My husband by no means saved me out of something.”
